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New Zealand Gazette and Wellington Spectator, Volume I, Issue 13, 4 July 1840, Page 1

NEW ZEALAND LAND ; COMPANY. Capital, £100,000, in 4000 Shares of £25 each, all paid up. k Governor: The Earl oj^Durham. " v Deputy Governor : Joseph "Somes, Esq. Directors : Lord Petre, Hon. Francis Baring, M.P., John Ellorker Boulcott, Esq., John William Buckle, Esq., Russell Ellice, Esq., James Brodie Gordon, Esq., Thomas Alers Hankey, Esq., William Hutt Esq., M.P., Stewart Majoribanks, Esq., Sir William Molesworth, Bart., M.P., Alexander Nairn, Esq., John Pirie, Esq., Alderman, Sir George Sinclair, Bart., M.P., John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P., Win. Thompson, Esq., Alderman, M.P., - Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Arthur Willis, Esq., George Frederick Young, Esq. Secretary : John Ward, Esq. THE main features of the system of colonization adopted by the Company, are, — Ist, the sale of lands, at an uniform and sufficient price; and 2ndly, the employment of a large portion of the purchase-money, as an Immigration, Fund. In these respects, the principles of South Australia have been followed as nearly as circumstances would, in the present case, permit. The grand object of the new, or improved, system of the disposal of colonial lands, is to regulate the supply of new land, by the real wants of the Colonists, so that the land shall never be either superabundant, or deficient, 'either too cheap, or too dear. It has been shown that the due proportion between people and land may be constantly secured by abandoning the old system of grants, and requiring an uniform price per acre, for all new lands, without exception. ' If the price be not too low, it deters "speculators from obtaining land, with a view to leaving their property in a desert state, and thus prevents injurious dispersion ; it also, by compelling every labourer to work for wages, until he has saved the only means of obtaining land, insures a supply of labour for hire. If, on the other hand, .the price be not too high, it neither confines the settlers within a space inconveniently narrow, nor does'it prevent the thrifty labourer from becoming a land-owner, after working some time for wages. A sufficient, but not more than" sufficient price for all new land, is the main feature of the new system of colonization. It obviates every species of bondage; by providing combinable labour, it renders industry very productive, and maintains both high -'wages, and high profits ; . it makes the colony as attractive as possible, both to capitalists and to labourers ; ' and not merely to these, but also, by bestowing on the colony; the better attributes of an old. society, to those who have a distaste for what has heretofore been the primitive condition of new colonies. ■ The great object of the price is to secure the most desirable proportions between people and land ; but the plan has the further result of producing a revenue, which will not only supply the requisite profit to the shareholders of the Company, but furnishes the means for an Immigration Fund, — a fund constantly applicable to the purpose of bringing labour to the colony — that is, in causing the best sort of colonization to proceed at the greatest possible rate. And tins is the second feature of the new 83' stem. The employment of the purchase-money, or the principal part of it, in conveying settlers to the colony, has the following effects. It makes the purchasers of land see plainly, that their money will be returned in the shape of labour and population. It tends, in fact, to lower the necessary standard of price, because, with a constant influx of people to, the colony, the due proportion between people and land may be kept up by a lower price, than if there were no such immigration . It therefore diminishes the period during which the labourer must work for hire, and by the" rapid progress, which it imparts to the best sort of^olonization,, it -explains to the labouring class' of immigrants, that every one of them who is industrious' and thrifty, may be sure to become- not^rrierely an owner of land, but also in his • turn, an employer of hired labourers, a master of servants. From these considerations, the Company has adopted the same system of disposing of its waste lands, as has already proved highly favourable.to the productiveness of industry in South Australia. In a new colony, planted in a fertile and extensive territory, it is obvious, that the establishment of such a system is a matter of the deepest moment to the future of society. "From it the best effects *^Siay with, confidence be anticipated : a constant <md regular supply of new land in due proportion to the wants of a population increasing by births and immigration ; all the advantages to which facilities of transport and communication are.essential ; certainty of limits, and security of title to property in land ; the greatest facilities" on acquiring the" due quantity; the greatest encouragement to immigration and settlement ; and the most rapid progress -of .the people, in material, comfort and social improvement." The Land Office for Sales and Transfers is now open at Port Nicholson, and the land is sold in sections of 100 acres each, at £1 per acre. The advantage of purchasing before the surveys are in a sufficiently forward stale to allow of immediate selection, is, that the priority of choice is secured in tne order in which the registration of the purchase is made. Port Nicholson. April l-l r 1810. J